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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Catching up on a few things

I'm too late to post this one on Karin Jurick's "Different Strokes blog, but I am trying to catch up and paint the ones I've missed anyway - just to give them a try. I find I tend to get bogged down with the detail of some of the photo's she uses, so trying to simplify is a challenge for me. A good challenge none the less.

Also, I recently sent out my first newsletter. I thought I might send my newsletters out via snail mail but with the price of stamps I now think e-mail is the best way. This is a photo of my newsletter I printed out. I have notes all over so I won't forget how I did certain things I felt worked.

4 comments:

I think you did a great job of simplifying. And I like the look of the black ink - gives it a look of an illustration. I like to try that sometimes too.

Have you tried the Speedball Elegant Writer Marker? Its made for calligraphy, and says its permanent, but I saw a painting in one of the art magazines where the artist used one of these to do a 'contour' drawing and then added some water on top and it bled in an interesting fashion. I have one to try, but haven't had time yet.